Archives for: 2006, week 18

carl & al bring it all back home

carl in boston 1964

Al discusses solo tracks on hallmark disc

ICEBERG RADIO "Brian, and I, and Mike had one song each as a new offering. Brian's song is quite powerful, I think it's quite different. Mike's song I think is really charming. I kind of like it actually. It's a nice ballad." more »

thank you male ego phase iii

"Video Archives, Vol. 2: 1968-1969 Not for Broadcast" bootleg dvd

ALLMUSIC “The good side of this DVD collection lies in the sheer quantity, presenting no less than two-hours-and-twenty-minutes of footage of the Beach Boys in 1968 and 1969. Taken from television clips, promotional films, and a 55-minute film documenta… more »

The Beach Boys In a lone star state of mind

EL PASO TIMES more »

The beach boys with jan & dean 1978

two cool rock chicks listening to NEU!

eMUSIC more »

Beach Boys Jeans???

MARKETWIRE “Lyric Jeans, Inc., a cutting-edge premium clothing company, today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group. As part of the deal, Lyric Jeans will utilize the music publisher's expansive s… more »

BRIAN WILSON LYRICS

BRIAN WILSON LYRICS more »

Brian Wilson Signed SMiLE Guitar

Male Ego?

THE BEAUTY OF ELECTRONICS

Ellen Allien & Apparat team up to release the amazing album ORCHESTRA OF BUBBLES on the innovative Berlin label BPITCH CONTROL. PITCHFORK “Allien and Apparat have burrowed one of the most magical rabbit-holes you'll explore this year.” CREATIV… more »

Go daddy, go daddy, go daddy, go!

not something you see everyday

I Write the songs, damn it!

a steal at $95,000,000.00

"Dora Maar With Cat," a 1941 portrait by Picasso. more »

Beach Boys Vs. Fat Boys

"A Vocal Element" Rear View

Beach Boys Photos- circa 1971-77

JOHN JWANOWSKI COLLECTION more »

Boo, Hoo. media indusTRY cries about "piracy' while profits top billions

MEDIA MOGULS TARGET "PIRATES" MEDIA INDUSTRY CLAIMS PIRACY HURTS BOTTOM LINE Yet, TIME WARNER’S PROFITS ARE UP 60% TIME WARNER MAKES $1,460,000,000.00 IN PROFITS BERTELSMANN, PART OWNER OF SONY/BMG, SEES PROFITS RISE more »

Ouch! Wipe Out!

AP "Beach Boy Bruce Johnston is recovering after wiping out on his surfboard. Johnston was surfing in Santa Barbara, California, on Saturday, when the wave on which he was riding collapsed. Johnston says in a statement the board snapped past his head an… more »

Meat is an instrument

FINANCIAL TIMES “The Drift, [Scott Walker's] first album since Tilt in 1995, should do his cult appeal no harm, for it distances him so far from mainstream pop that it seems to exist in a musical galaxy of its own devising. Alternately unsettling and ri… more »

"Bomb Iran (2006)" Sung to the tune of "Barbara Ann" by The Beach Boys

BOOT NEWT BLOG more »

Steve Schalchlin Reminisces about nik venet

BONUS ROUND BLOG “Nik Venet was a music industry legend who was fierce in his denunciation of bad songwriting. He made Simon Cowell look like Paula Abdul. Seriously. Nik never gave any quarter to any songwriter who he felt was lazy and not trying to div… more »

The Beach Boys will rock the delaware state fair july 27

DELAWARE STATE FAIR DELAWARE ONLINE WGMD RADIO more »

greg tate swallows "fishscale" hook, line & sinker

VILLAGE VOICE “No surprise then that Ghost's Fishscale is the most creative album to come out of New York hiphop since his own 2000 Supreme Clientele. The music is top shelf—full of Blaxploitation beats and brass, Philly strings and rumble-tumble bassli… more »

Analysis of scott walker's brooding new album "The Drift"

NEW YORK MAGAZINE "Walker, who is 63, has one of the greatest voices in pop history, and in his younger days, when he battled orchestras as part of the sixties pop group the Walker Brothers, he was not afraid to use it. What he has lost—not much—in full… more »

mike melvoin, "pet sounds" session musician, gets around

KC STAR MIKE MELVOIN HOME PAGE INTERVIEW WITH MIKE MELVOIN more »

famed producer mark linett works with new cars

ZIO SHOW more »

It's all about food for chili con carnie

ABC NEWS "I love to watch people eat," says Carnie Wilson. more »

Sweet & Hoffs Live "Under The Covers"

CHICAGO SUN TIMES "I called Matthew up about two years ago to sing with the Bangles one night at [the L.A. club] McCabes,” says Susanna Hoffs. “We were doing a fund-raiser -- and he mentioned to me during a break in rehearsal that he always wanted to pr… more »

Dick Dale Still Riding High

PIONEER PRESS "There wasn't anything called surf rock until [Dick Dale] came along," said Bob Berryhill, guitarist for the Surfaris (who did the surf classic "Wipe Out"). "Dick happened to be the one Leo Fender gave the first reverb unit to," says Berr… more »

MUNCIE WELCOMES THE FOUR FRESHMEN

THE STAR PRESS more »

open up and say ahhhhh!

Hallmark Heads for the surf with beach boys disc

BILLBOARD more »